Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.bbs-scene.org!macgui.com!dog_cow From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: White Disk PD images? Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mac GUI Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <14d7b842-2bd6-4111-9d5b-fcf782672b06@a9g2000yqo.googlegroups.com> <8457ab4a-69a8-4456-beca-260cbd63765b@h14g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> <0de9eccc-bc9f-49d4-ab04-535d58de88f8@g25g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gunshin.wiredns.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.bbs-scene.org 1318965401 11099 74.119.145.48 (18 Oct 2011 19:16:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@bbs-scene.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:16:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mac GUI City Usenet Posting Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.apple2:3114 KP wrote: > On Oct 18, 3:05�pm, KP wrote: >> On Oct 18, 2:48�pm, KP wrote: >> >> > I seem to recall that at some point there was a big batch of public >> > domain software on Asimov in several dozen 140K floppy images that >> > were something like "White Disk 01A" "White Disk 01B" "White Disk 02A" >> > etc. >> >> > I can't seem to find them now. >> >> > Was I wrong? �Or have they been removed? �If so, why and how do I go >> > about getting them? >> >> > There were a lot of real gems on those obscure public domain disks... >> >> I think what I'm referring to were the "White Disks" referenced on >> this page:http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/landover.no-ip.com/Applications/ >> >> Is it safe to assume that anything on those pages is contained in the >> archive of mirrors.apple2.org.za found >> here?ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/other_archives/ >> >> Namely:ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/other_archives/Apple_I... >> >> And does anyone know whether a new dump of the .org.za site is going >> to be done any time soon? �Because the more recent dump is listed as >> only >> "partial":ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/other_archives/Apple_I... > > I suppose what I'm asking is: If I back up Asimov, then have I also > successfully backed up all of the other archives out there? > > Or is there a substantial collection of other stuff, elsewhere on the > internet, that Asimov doesn't mirror or parrallel in some way? > > I would like to avoid duplication of effort but I also don't want to > miss an important trove somewhere! :-) > Have you sent in for your copy of the Vault DVD collection yet? ;-)